Student leaders discuss proposed GSRC in Plex

By LEXI GOLDSTEIN the daily northwestern @lexipgoldstein

Many students, like Communication senior Jo Scaletty, came to Northwestern looking for people who can understand challenges that can come with having queer identities.

“I feel like I have a perception that queer people just kind of find each other,” Scaletty, who is also external president of Rainbow Alliance, said. “I think it’s sometimes bizarre

— even to me — how it just happens over and over again, but it happened for me, so I was very glad.”

About a quarter of NU’s undergraduate population identifies as LGBTQ+, which is triple the 2013 figure, according to 2021 data from the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.

Multiple new queer student spaces have been founded in recent years, including the Society of Trans and Non-binary Students and an Out in Science, Technology,

In spring 2021, airstrikes, rocket attacks and police violence against protesters in Palestine and Israel left 261 Palestinians, including 67 children, and at least 13 people in Israel, including two children, dead.

At times, Northwestern’s administration has emailed community members about events that impact students, faculty and staff student body, such as police brutality and global health crises. Yet to many students’ frustration, the administration stayed silent in spring 2021.

Ava*, a Palestinian alum who graduated in » See IN FOCUS , page 6